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"breaking, two explosions in the white house, and barack obama is injured." the message went to "ap's" 1.9 million twitter followers and spread like a virus. re-tweeted almost 5,000 times within a minute. but it was a fake. "ap's "account had been hacked. >> it partly explains the unusual activity in the dow. >> the dow began plunging, and within three minutes, dropped more than 140 points. >> you looked around the floor. you saw people running. you saw people upset. not sure what was going on. just watching this market trade lower. >> automatic trading programs kicked in. >> human beings weren't making these trades. these were computers. algorithms designed to skim the headlines and find negative or positive words and help companies profit on the results. >> minutes after that first message "ap's" corporate account tweeted it was bogus and suspended the "ap's" twitter page. >> i can say the president is fine. i was just with him. >> the syrian electronic army took credit for the hacking as well as for hacking into cbs' "60 minutes" twitter account over the w
"breaking, two explosions in the white house, and barack obama is injured." the message went to "ap's" 1.9 million twitter followers and spread like a virus. re-tweeted almost 5,000 times within a minute. but it was a fake. "ap's "account had been hacked. >> it partly explains the unusual activity in the dow. >> the dow began plunging, and within three minutes, dropped more than 140 points. >> you looked around the floor. you saw people running....
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obama has made clear the initiative here would come from the u.s. and while he welcomes international participation, he is not depending on the involvement of foreign forces for what will essentially be an operation conducted entirely by the united states military from naval vessels off the syrian coast." "the new york times" sources tonight pegging the timing of a unilateral american military strike on syria to as soon as when those u.n. inspectors leave. which could be as soon as tomorrow. joining us now is is andrea mitchell, nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent, host of msnbc's "andrea mitchell reports." she's been closely following the situation in syria. andrea, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> "the new york times" reporting tonight the president is prepared to move unilaterally in syria even without our closest ally in britain. what are you hearing about this? >> we heard that actually, i heard that last night around midnight when it was becoming clear cameron was in trouble in response to my questions about the
obama has made clear the initiative here would come from the u.s. and while he welcomes international participation, he is not depending on the involvement of foreign forces for what will essentially be an operation conducted entirely by the united states military from naval vessels off the syrian coast." "the new york times" sources tonight pegging the timing of a unilateral american military strike on syria to as soon as when those u.n. inspectors leave. which could be as soon...
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congress and signed by president obama in december. and it banned from entering into the united states, a whole list of russian officials. 18 russian officials thought to be either connected with this specific death or accused of other human rights abuses. russia, of course, was enraged by this, enraged by the rebuke, enraged that the united states would try to take some sort of moral high ground on human rights issues, russia protested voer sirrously and it ultimately led to the tit for tat list, banning 18 americans by name, if we're going to ban 18 russians by name. it also led to a ban on american parents adopting russian orphans. and it not only banned american parents from adopting russian children in the future, it halted adoptions that were already well underway for hundreds of families. hundreds of russian kids, more than 300 who had already met their new american families, who had been told they would be going home to their new home with their new parents, those hopes were just ended in a gut-wrenchingly abrupt way. those kid
congress and signed by president obama in december. and it banned from entering into the united states, a whole list of russian officials. 18 russian officials thought to be either connected with this specific death or accused of other human rights abuses. russia, of course, was enraged by this, enraged by the rebuke, enraged that the united states would try to take some sort of moral high ground on human rights issues, russia protested voer sirrously and it ultimately led to the tit for tat...
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obama's relationship with the russian president since u.s./russian relations are all over the headlines right now. it's not just russia's decision to provide temporary asylum to the nsa leaker, edward snowden, or even russia's high-profile arrest recently of a u.s. diplomat who they have accused of being a cia spy and who they perp walked to a great effect. it's not even just russia's decision to ban american couples from adopting russian children. it's also russia's recent spate of anti-gay legislation which has drawn lots of criticism from the west, and some calls that the world should boycott the upcoming winter olympics that are due to be held in russia next year. >> i know that one question that's been raised is how do we approach the olympics? i want to just make very clear right now i do not think it's appropriate to boycott the olympics. we've got a bunch of americans out there who are training hard, who are doing everything they can to succeed. nobody's more offended than me by some of the anti-gay and lesbian legislation you've been
obama's relationship with the russian president since u.s./russian relations are all over the headlines right now. it's not just russia's decision to provide temporary asylum to the nsa leaker, edward snowden, or even russia's high-profile arrest recently of a u.s. diplomat who they have accused of being a cia spy and who they perp walked to a great effect. it's not even just russia's decision to ban american couples from adopting russian children. it's also russia's recent spate of anti-gay...
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president obama was back at the white house today. his eight-day massachusetts vacation was marked by republicans angrily denouncing the fact he want on vacation at all. also the president making a sober statement from his vacation about the bloodshed in egypt. there were candid photos showing the president breaking the rule that presidents should never be photographed with anything on their heads. but also he doesn't look all that dorky. bike helmets are much cuter than they used to be. the president's vacation, though, also reportedly marked by some protests. low key local protests where the president was staying that were aimed at catching the president's eye. "dressed in a polar bear costume, jerry, the field director for the center of biological diversity has been all over the island trying to catch the president's eye as his motorcade drives past. at ali's general store, at bunch of grapes bookstore in vineyard haven. you name it. "polar bears not pipelines," he said, removing his bear head to talk to the "boston globe." "wherev
president obama was back at the white house today. his eight-day massachusetts vacation was marked by republicans angrily denouncing the fact he want on vacation at all. also the president making a sober statement from his vacation about the bloodshed in egypt. there were candid photos showing the president breaking the rule that presidents should never be photographed with anything on their heads. but also he doesn't look all that dorky. bike helmets are much cuter than they used to be. the...
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beat barack obama. the other one is there's no such thing in a post-bush world of being too pure in the republican party. what that exactly means from a policy and agenda standpoint, i don't know, nobody's articulated yet. there's this constant battle now, constant reinforcement for people who seek out the most pure position, most pure label and you can gain stature, prominence and make a lot of money on the conservative side by claiming the most pure ground now, even if it doesn't mean winning national elections. >> there have always been people making that argument within republican politics because it helped their bottom line. they realized it was not going to be the best thing for the party winning general elections. right now, though, i feel like we have the heritage foundation really pushing republicans in that direction, and we have the rnc really thinking about going in that direction. we have the power base, that is going in that direction, what are the countervailing sources? >> there are the
beat barack obama. the other one is there's no such thing in a post-bush world of being too pure in the republican party. what that exactly means from a policy and agenda standpoint, i don't know, nobody's articulated yet. there's this constant battle now, constant reinforcement for people who seek out the most pure position, most pure label and you can gain stature, prominence and make a lot of money on the conservative side by claiming the most pure ground now, even if it doesn't mean winning...
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here's president obama's tone. it was very different, as i said, from kerry's, who spoke a couple hours before. let's watch him this afternoon. here's a president in a meeting. he sort of did it as a photo spray right before his meeting with some baltic state presidents. >> i have not made a final decision about various actions that might be taken to help enforce that norm, but as i've already said, i have had my military and our team look at a wide range of options. we have consulted with allies. we've consulted with congress. we've been in conversations with all the interested parties. and in no event are we considering any kind of military action that would involve boots on the ground, that would involve a long-term campaign, but we are looking at the possibility of a limbed, narrow act that would help make sure that not only syria, but others around the world, understand that the international community cares about maintaining this chemical weapons ban. >> anne, it's so different. usually presidents say everyth
here's president obama's tone. it was very different, as i said, from kerry's, who spoke a couple hours before. let's watch him this afternoon. here's a president in a meeting. he sort of did it as a photo spray right before his meeting with some baltic state presidents. >> i have not made a final decision about various actions that might be taken to help enforce that norm, but as i've already said, i have had my military and our team look at a wide range of options. we have consulted...
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president obama did one last rally. a huge one. 25,000 people in the rain at the university of north carolina in charlotte. he talked about his grandmother that night. he said, she's gone home. she died peacefully in her sleep with my sister at her side. he said, i'm not going to talk about her too long, because it is hard for me to talk about. so with hours to go until election day, presidential candidate barack obama, that night before the election in 2008, he stood in the rain in charlotte and he cried during his speech. and he gave liz closing argument for why he should be president of the united states. and it was a very powerful moment because of that raw, human emotion, but it was also a powerful political moment because here it was the night before a presidential election and it is a big deal that the democratic presidential candidate is making his closing argument to the nation from the south. and he could afford to do that because some of the south was within reach for him, and for democrats on election day. >
president obama did one last rally. a huge one. 25,000 people in the rain at the university of north carolina in charlotte. he talked about his grandmother that night. he said, she's gone home. she died peacefully in her sleep with my sister at her side. he said, i'm not going to talk about her too long, because it is hard for me to talk about. so with hours to go until election day, presidential candidate barack obama, that night before the election in 2008, he stood in the rain in charlotte...
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you live to do the invocation for the first african-american president of the united states barack obama. >> benediction. >> the benediction. >> get it straight. >> you closed. >> last word. >> you had the last word. all right. well, dr. lowrie, how do you feel? first of all, let's go back. how was those times? because people don't realize this wasn't just a bus outing coming to washington. there was major struggles in the south. james farmer who headed one of the civil rights groups couldn't even make it, he was in jail. there had been blood shed. tell us the environment that this march happened in. >> well, you know, you sound like john kennedy. he was assured there was going to be violence. he was sure we'd have turmoil and turbulence of all kind at the march. but we had faith. god had brought us along, dr. king kept us under the commitment to let justice roll down but not let violence roll down in our experience. so we trusted god. and we prayed. when i got to washington, i came in early that morning from chicago, and there was nobody around. i came on a plane and i got nervous that
you live to do the invocation for the first african-american president of the united states barack obama. >> benediction. >> the benediction. >> get it straight. >> you closed. >> last word. >> you had the last word. all right. well, dr. lowrie, how do you feel? first of all, let's go back. how was those times? because people don't realize this wasn't just a bus outing coming to washington. there was major struggles in the south. james farmer who headed one...
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. >>> if you look at president obama's schedule any day of the week or month or year, this is usually the first thing you see on that schedule. the president and vice president received the presidential daily briefing. the first thing in the morning, it happens day after day after day after day. it's very consistent. this is pretty much how every day starts for the president of the united states and usually the vice president, too. the presidential daily briefing, the pdb. it's the daily document that contains all the things the intelligence community thinks the president needs to know for that specific day. the pdb or some version of it has been around for more than 50 years. for most of those five decades it was delivered to the president by the head of the cia and then ultimately to the position that was created to be above the head of the cia which is the director of national intelligence. the pdb is a big deal as these things go. it is also classified. you are not the president unless you are watching, mr. president, in which case this doesn't apply to you. aside from that, you a
. >>> if you look at president obama's schedule any day of the week or month or year, this is usually the first thing you see on that schedule. the president and vice president received the presidential daily briefing. the first thing in the morning, it happens day after day after day after day. it's very consistent. this is pretty much how every day starts for the president of the united states and usually the vice president, too. the presidential daily briefing, the pdb. it's the...
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but excuse me, my tears are not for the election of barack obama's president. my tears are for all of those persons that i personally knew, personally knew -- i called them wintertime soldiers, who made his election possible. and the president today and even earlier, he reflected that in the very poignant and moving speech. i thought he gave an exceptionally good speech today. it was balanced, it was right on the money, and near the end i could hear his moving over to be like a baptist preacher, i knew he had more sense than to completely go there. it was a beautiful speech. it was balanced. and as some of your guests have said, i heard on -- i don't know whether it was your show but the chris hayes show, is that we're realists. the dream substantially has been realized, john lewis said, anybody would have to be blind, deaf and not recognized in 50 years, there are no signs colored in white in this country. there are signs that are gone. there are cracks in the dream. there are obvious cracks in the dream, most of those cracks have to do with the economic oppor
but excuse me, my tears are not for the election of barack obama's president. my tears are for all of those persons that i personally knew, personally knew -- i called them wintertime soldiers, who made his election possible. and the president today and even earlier, he reflected that in the very poignant and moving speech. i thought he gave an exceptionally good speech today. it was balanced, it was right on the money, and near the end i could hear his moving over to be like a baptist...
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president obama's going to russia next week. he canceled this meeting with putin to go to moscow to meet with putin. yes, putin is one of the major backers of assad. this is the time to double down and have those meetings. they canceled u.s. diplomats at the hague meeting with russian counterparts. why? this is the time to use all efforts at diplomacy. >> it goes in both directions. what eli was saying i think is true in the sense john kerry has worked very hard to put this geneva party together, against a lot of resistance. the argument, eli, i think state has made is their approach to meetings are not, you know, are conditional. so if there's actions like you gas 1,400 people, then there are consequences for that diplomatically. >> well, let me just put it like this. >> what about going to congress? >> we completely agree. >> we know what russia wants. they want assad to win. but we don't know that the americans want the rebels to win because they include factions that include al qaeda. i don't think there's anything really fr
president obama's going to russia next week. he canceled this meeting with putin to go to moscow to meet with putin. yes, putin is one of the major backers of assad. this is the time to double down and have those meetings. they canceled u.s. diplomats at the hague meeting with russian counterparts. why? this is the time to use all efforts at diplomacy. >> it goes in both directions. what eli was saying i think is true in the sense john kerry has worked very hard to put this geneva party...
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syria and chemical weapons and what president obama is planning to do about it. >> the obama administration says there is very little doubt -- >> we believe there is very little doubt about culpability. >> the syrian government used chemical weapons. >> did a chemical weapons attack occur? >> what is before us today is real. >> the answer to that question is yes. >> president obama is weighing military options against syria. >> i have no affection for mr. assad. >> there is no solution as we have long made clear that includes assad. >> but at the same time i am less sure of the resistance. >> in that sense there's a big worry. >> should they let this chemical attack go unanswered? >> i do think action is going to occur. >> this morning a team of u.n. chemical weapons inspectors arrived in
syria and chemical weapons and what president obama is planning to do about it. >> the obama administration says there is very little doubt -- >> we believe there is very little doubt about culpability. >> the syrian government used chemical weapons. >> did a chemical weapons attack occur? >> what is before us today is real. >> the answer to that question is yes. >> president obama is weighing military options against syria. >> i have no affection...
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, if you were still in the obama administration and president obama had the opportunity to run for a third term, is chris christie the republican you'd be most worried about putting him up against? >> what i think is rand paul is going to be his nominee. he starts with huge advantages on fund-raising. if it's hillary clinton, any other democrat, it's going to be a generational type landslide election because rand paul is obviously a lunatic. >> i don't think rand paul is going to get the nomination. it's kind of like rick perry in 20 -- we're talking about 2016. this is bad. in 2012, it's like rick perry, he on paper looked like the guy, but like rick perry, rand paul doesn't know what he's talking about even when he's talking about supposedly his wheelhouse issues. that gets exposed early on when people are exposed to the campaign process. >> he does a better job than rick perry tdoes. >> i don't think so. did you hear him talk about melten friedman like he was alive? >> keep in mind, it's not like all the facts are connected up top. i will make a bet with you that rand paul is goin
, if you were still in the obama administration and president obama had the opportunity to run for a third term, is chris christie the republican you'd be most worried about putting him up against? >> what i think is rand paul is going to be his nominee. he starts with huge advantages on fund-raising. if it's hillary clinton, any other democrat, it's going to be a generational type landslide election because rand paul is obviously a lunatic. >> i don't think rand paul is going to...
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this has been shrewdly and successfully done by the obama administration. it doesn't say much about the rest of us. some good journalism has come out of this that with the snowden leaks and the manning leaks, journalists went through raw data, if you will. >>> information. and did their own reporting. and so some good journalism has come out of it. >> dan rather of "dan rather reports" airing mondays on axs-tv. we have something totally different and slightly ambitious lined up for tomorrow night's show here. i have details coming up. to pre is the better choice for her, she's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with her all day to see how it goes. [ claira ] after the deliveries, i was okay. now the ciabatta is done and the pain is starting again. more pills? seriously? seriously. [ groans ] all these stops to take more pills can be a pain. can i get my aleve back? ♪ for my pain, i want my aleve. [ male announcer ] look for the easy-open red arthritis cap. to fly home for the big family reunion. you must be garth's father? hel
this has been shrewdly and successfully done by the obama administration. it doesn't say much about the rest of us. some good journalism has come out of this that with the snowden leaks and the manning leaks, journalists went through raw data, if you will. >>> information. and did their own reporting. and so some good journalism has come out of it. >> dan rather of "dan rather reports" airing mondays on axs-tv. we have something totally different and slightly ambitious...
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look, the first bar here is 2009, that's president obama's first year in office that's what he had on his hands when he came into office, what he got handed by the outgoing republican administration, then the next three bars are 2010, 2011, 2012 and the final bar, the teeny tiny one, little shorty there, you might miss it on the right, that's the projected deficit for the end of this year. notice that the bars are getting shorter? which means the deficit is getting smaller. you see when things that were once long become less long, they are not growing. it's amazing, right? eric cantor, you are incorrect. next up, true or false, the city of detroit is holding an important election tomorrow for the top leadership of that great american city. is that true or is that false? [ buzzer ] that is false. the city of detroit is holding an election tomorrow, but it is pointless because there is no democracy in detroit anymore. the guy on the left of your screen here is dave bing, who is the mayor of detroit elected by the people in 2009. he's not running again for the position, and i think i kno
look, the first bar here is 2009, that's president obama's first year in office that's what he had on his hands when he came into office, what he got handed by the outgoing republican administration, then the next three bars are 2010, 2011, 2012 and the final bar, the teeny tiny one, little shorty there, you might miss it on the right, that's the projected deficit for the end of this year. notice that the bars are getting shorter? which means the deficit is getting smaller. you see when things...